Physical exerciser



Feb. E, E938. l A W. CHAPMAN 2,106,994

PHYSICAL, EXERC'ISER Filed April 1, 19:57

ffl/675.5; mw u Patented Feb. 1, 1938 UNETED PHYSICAL EXERCISER Arthur William Chapman, London, England Appiicauon April 1, 193.7, serial No. 134,420 In Great Britain April 15, 1936 6 Claims.

The invention relates to physical exercisers for human use, and seeks to provide in a single device means whereby a large variety of beneficial exercises for the body and limbs may be carried out.

An object of the invention is to provide an exerciser usable by compression between the hands or parts of the body or limbs. A further object is to provide such an exerciser with a degree of adjustability so that as the users physique improves the eiiort he has to exert may be increased. Again, an object is to provide simple means whereby the adjustment at the time being may readily be observed. A minor object is to provide locking means for transport or storage of the device, and other objects will become apparent, more especially in relation to economical and convenient constructionai features, from the following description of an example of the invention, with the aid of the accompanying dra-wing, in whichz Figure l is a perspective View of an exerciser;

Figure 2 a longitudinal section; and

Figure 3 an enlarged external View showing detail.

In this example the exerciser comprises an internal telescopic tube i, slidable within an external tube 2. At their adjacent ends these tubes are swaged or formed respectively outwardly and inwardly at IA and 2A, to prevent their coming apart. The end of the tube 2 is closed by a disclike plate 3 with a spigot i secured in the end of tube 2 by a split pin 5 or other appropriate means. Upon the disc 3 is sprung a rubber cap ii for comfort and convenience in handling. The end of the tube I carries rotatably a somewhat similar plate 'I with another rubber cap l5, and the spigot 8, integral with the plate i, projects through a bush 8A and is retained by a washer 9 with axial clearance from the bush 3A, In a groove in the tube I is a circlet 8B which meets a shoulder 8C formed by turning down the bush. Axially fixed through the plate and spigot l, 8, and inwardly protruding is a square-threaded stem It on which there is screwed a cylindrical nut i i. Between the nut I I and the spigot Il is a compression spring i2, 'I'he position of the nut I i, which may be peripherally marked to facilitate observation is visible by means of a series of holes I3, which may be marked with numbers for purpose of ascertaining arbitrarily the resistance to be expected from the spring I2. These numbers may actually correspond with the spring resistance in pounds. There is formed in the wall of the tube 2 a circumferential slit I4 which is adapted to register with a like slit I5 in the part IA of tube I. The slits enable the tubes to be locked in contracted position by the insertion for example of a coin I5A, this facilitating storage or transport. It is intended that the exerciser so formed be used by alternate compression and relaxation against the resistance of the spring I2, the initial compression of which is oi course adjusted by rotating the plate 'I and its setting being ascertained through the holes I3. 5

What I claim iszl. A physical exercising device comprising tubes arranged as a telescopic system, a spring housed therein to extend the system, and grips mounted on the opposite ends of the system to facilitate compression thereof, and screw means for adjusting the spring by rotating an element associated with one of said grips.

2. A physical exercising device comprising a rst tube, a second tube slidable outside the first tube, complementary stop means on said tubes to prevent separation thereof, a compression spring housed by said tubes, an end grip attached to one tube, a second end grip attached to the other tube, a threaded element rotatably associated with said second grip, and a nut on said element forming an adjustable abutment for said spring.

3. A physical exercising device comprising tubes arranged as a telescopic system, a spring housed therein to extend the system, and internal means for adjusting initial load of the spring, rendered visible by aperturing a tube of said system.

ment for said spring,

said nut being visible through apertures in one tube.

5. A physical exerciser comprising an outer metal tube swaged in at one end, an inner tube slidable in said outer tube and swaged out to abut against said end, a padded grip attached to the outer end of one tube, a second padded grip carried by and movable with respect to the remote end of the other tube, a compression spring housed by said tubes, a nutI forming an endwise abut-ment for one end of said spring and rendered visible by periorations in one tube, and a threaded stem for operating said nut.

6. An exerciser according to claim l, having looking means consisting in a removable abutment in erted in openings in said tubes designed to register in the fully contracted relation of the tubes.

ARTHUR WILLIAM CHAPMAN. 

